Positions vs Ideals

So, I got kind of nostalgic today.

I had my last unoffical meeting with the Greek Life Advisor at Baker as IFC President.  Don't get me wrong, I've been ready for the responsibility to leave my hands for the last couple of weeks, but seeing it be real is a little weird. 

The last year of my life I've kept my cell phone at my side every weekend just in case something in the fraternity world comes up.  I've ran meetings with some of the top Greek leaders on Baker's campus.  I've talk to potential new members on behalf of the entire Greek communtiy.  I've talked to various faculaty and staff on campus about Greek Life.  Myself and four other men have stood for Greek Life and the ideals that fraternities exist for. 

Now its over...

It's made me realize something very important.

You cna pour your life into a position, a job, a career, or an activity, but it is not that you should be pouring your life into.  What you should be pouring your life into is the ideals that you stand for.  I loved being IFC President and doing those duties.  However, it wasn't ever about being something, it was standing for something.  It's standing for the ideal that fraternties are a place where men grow into competent leaders and make the world better.  If I'm just pouring my life into being IFC President, and NOT the ideals that I'm trying to uphold, then its pretty pointless.

We should never do something because we want to be something, its because we want to stand for something.

For example, you don't take an accoutning job just to be an accountant.  You take it because you want to provide for your family because you believe that is an ideal you believe in.  Or you do it because you love the work, and you stand for the ideal that you want ot be happy.

I don't know, I'm still working through this idea, but, stading for something in what you do is much more important than just doing it.  A purpose.  A reason.  Isn't that what we are all searching for?